Club 3000 – Ohio Landfills

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general’s office took the lead in the investigation of whether Ohio EPA employees in the Northeast District Office in Twinsburg were showing favoritism toward companies such as the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility, a state investigator said Monday.

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Nov 7, 2008

BOLIVAR Odors coming from the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility may get worse this winter as part of work to ensure that the odors don’t get much more worse.
Paul Ruesch, an environmental engineer for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, gave an update this morning on the Pike Township landfill to the board of [...]

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BOLIVAR U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said this morning they have a higher level of concern about the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility, after recent data revealed higher than expected temperatures.

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PIKE TWP. U.S. Rep. Zack Space, D-Dover, wants assurances from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that a change in regional administrators will not slow efforts to correct problems at Countywide landfill.

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BOLIVAR The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today brought in an air-monitoring vehicle to investigate whether toxic compounds are being emitted at unsafe levels from the Countywide landfill.

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Equipment can detect, track airborne contaminants
BOLIVAR: Using a bus equipped with a high-tech mobile laboratory, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducted air-quality tests Wednesday on and near the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in southern Stark County.

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Reaction was swift Wednesday to a request for federal expertise in an effort for [...]

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02/02/08 – The US EPA is urging Countywide to cooperate with the federal investigation and to quickly implement measures designed to correct the situation at the landfill. It also calls for increased groundwater monitoring and expanded monitoring and testing of the air around the landfill. See article in the Akron Beacon Journal.

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While the state has overseen the effort to control a serious aluminum dross waste [...]

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12/28/2007 – Four US EPA staffers made a site visit to Countywide and requested information on aluminum dross, leachate, slope stability, and other collected data regarding the history of the situation. Tuscarawas County Commissioner Kerry Metzger expressed hope that this was a response to the letter the Joint Solid Waste District sent to the US [...]

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